Download Story of a Death Foretold: The Coup against Salvador Allende, 11 September 1973 AudioBook Free
For the fortieth anniversary of trend and rebellion in Chile, a looking background of the go up and show up of the world's first and only democratically elected Marxist president. On September 11, 1973, President Salvador Allende of Chile was deposed in a violent coup led by Standard Augusto Pinochet. The coup have been in the works for a few months, even years. Shortly after providing a farewell speech to his people, Allende passed on of gunshot wounds - whether inflicted by his own hands or an assassin's remains uncertain. Pinochet ruled Chile for a quarter century, but the short go up and bloody show up of Allende is still the main topic of fierce historical argument. In a global in the throes of the Cold Conflict, the seeming backwater of Chile became the number of a very hot discord - with Henry Kissinger and the Traditional western establishment aligned with Pinochet's insurgents against a socialist coalition of students, individuals, Pablo Neruda, and folk singers, led by the outstanding ideologue Allende. Revolution and counterrevolution enjoyed out in graphic detail, moving the tiny South American region to the center of the world stage in the remarkable fall months of 1973. Now the growing young scholar Oscar Guardiola-Rivera provides us a travel de force profile of your historical crossroads, tracing the future of democracy, and the paths of vitality, money, and assault that still shadow Latin America and its own relations with the United States.
